Brain Trivia Night at Half Price Books Humble
Brain Trivia Night Does your brain bulge from a profusion of facts? Does your family call you a “Know-it-all”? Well, come on down to our HPB Humble store for Brain Trivia Night on Thursday, June 14 from 7 to 9 pm. First Prize winner receives a $50 HPB Gift Card, Second Prize is a $25 HPB Gift Card, and Third Prize is a $10 HPB Gift Card. It pays to be a “Know-it-all.”
Summer Reading Program… for Grown Ups!
If you’re in the Houston area, love to read, miss those summer reading programs you participated in as a kid, and have a Harris County Library Card, you’ll be happy to know about the Harris County Public Library Get A Clue Summer Reading Program. And yes, its for kids AND adults, and the prizes are awesome.
HCPL will be drawing from registered readers to win a Kindle Touch eReader on Monday, June 11th. Every two weeks of the program, we’ll randomly draw from current registrants for an eReader prize, either a Kindle Touch or a NOOK Simple Touch. At the end of the summer, we’ll have drawings from readers who complete the program for one $30 Amazon gift card at each branch library and two grand prize drawings — one for a Kindle Fire and one for a NOOK Color.
Thanks to the Harris County Friends of the Library for providing the prizes and their generous support of Summer Reading!
I’ve got my profile set up and my first three reading sessions entered. I’m really excited about this, and hope to get an e-reader out of it so that I will be more accessible to upcoming authors as a reviewer. I know its more cost efficient for authors to send an e-book rather than a hard copy, but I wont be getting myself an e-reader unless I win it or earn it via Amazon credit as an affiliate. If/when I do get one, I will only accept review copies on it, I wont be purchasing e-books if the book is available in a traditional format. I’m old school, what can I say.
Got Wedding Plans? Shop Half Price Books Humble
June 4th-9th 2012 Half Price Books Humble will reward you for shopping for wedding preparation material (thank you cards, planners, how-tos, etc.) with a Raffle Ticket. What’s being raffled? A photo session with Sweet Southern Style Photography, the best little photography business in the Humble area.
Summer Reading Kick Off Party!
Every June Half Price Books hosts a party to kick off their summer reading program. At the store in Humble, we’ve made it a habit of inviting local Fireman Ricky Meehan out for the fun. He reads to the kids while we pass out snacks and brochures, and talks to them about being a fireman and shows off his gear. Last year he read Curious George and the Fireman, this year we laid out some fireman titles but got requests for favorites from the likes of Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein.
He read for nearly a full hour, kids came up and rotated out using the chairs. We maybe had about twenty smaller ones over all, but there were lots of tweens and teens that hung back, browsing the young adult section while munching on their snacks, pocketing the brochures so they could log their time and get the coupons too. HPB’s summer reading program is designed for kids 14 and under. If your child is too little read like mine, no worries, you can read to them and it still counts!
The Humble location will continue to do Wednesday morning story time at 10:30 am on a weekly basis throughout the summer. We wont have a fireman handy, but children’s authors have been known to do book signings on those days. Just last week we had local author Temara Moore read “Bloop! Bloop! Goes the Poop” later this month we’ll be visited by M.G. King, author of Librarian on the Roof.
A few of my personal favorites to keep an eye out for this summer:
Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House
Kids got to check out the gear and learn about how it protects our fireman from injury.
Every kid should spend a summer with old school greats like The Hardy Boys, The Boxcar Children, and Nancy Drew. When they are exhausted on those fabulous mysteries, most kids can handle Sherlock Holmes
Invitation to the Game
A great series for older kids to get into is Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars
Whatever you pick, if you’re 14 and under you should log your minutes and cash them in! More information can be found at the links below.
http://freebies.about.com/od/familyfreestuff/p/half-price-book-summer-reading.htm
Delaney Rhodes Book Signing
Yesterday, Half Price Books in Humble had the pleasure of hosting a book signing for Delaney Rhodes
About Delaney Rhodes (taken from Amazon.com): Of Irish and English descent, Romance Author Delaney Rhodes, is a native Texan from birth. She is a Graduate with Double Majors from The University of Houston; in Law and Writing. She has two teenage daughters, and is married to an entrepreneurial Husband. Three of her favorite people, are her three neurotic rescued Russian Blue cats; Sebastian, Sasha, and Sissy. Her family would not be complete without “13″, an adopted Bearded Dragon. Visit http://www.DelaneyRhodes.com.
There’s always something awesome going on at Half Price Books. Check out the location nearest you to see what’s happening: http://www.hpb.com/. Later today (June 3rd 2012) there’s a Summer Reading Kick Off Party at all HPB locations at 2:00 pm. The Humble store will have local fireman Ricky Meehan there, in his gear, to read a story to the kiddos.
Archie Every Friday!
Last time Archie played at Half Price Books he totally rocked the house. It was awesome. He was awesome. The customers were tapping their toes, buying vinyl, nodding their heads at the register, and clapping between book browsing. People came up to me and asked me if he’d be here every week. At the time, I had to say no, but now I’m proud to announce that from here on out – yes, Archie will be playing at Half Price Books in Humble every Friday night from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. Come one, come all, every week!
Kathryn Hallberg at Half Price Books Humble
Thursday night! May 24th, 2012 7:00- 9:00 pm at the Half Price Books in Humble.
Genre: Acoustic / Americana / Pop
from SPRING, Texas, US
Website www.cdbaby.com/cd/kathrynhallberg
Record Label River Bend
Type of Label Indie
Cosette
Notes from a Les Miserables Blog Hop
It took me longer to pluck through Cosette than it did for Fantine. Only because it was so engrossing, I had to take a delicious detour into the historical writings of Charles Esdaile
More than tell me much about Jean Valjean, it told me much about Hugo. Often when reading work like Les Miserables, where all the characters go through long stretches of being miserable and down on their luck, I wonder what changed the author so to make them either so hardened or so empathetic (as one can write similar stories from two completely opposite positions). Knowing more about the era, the place, being more familiar with my history, shed some light on those things. For starters, Hugo writes about the aftermath (and even certain parts of the wars) with such passion. He says things like, “Napoleon was one of those geniuses who rule the thunder” (pg.285) and “To make Wellington so great is to belittle England” (pg. 301).
Within the pages of Cosette, Hugo often references other writers and literature, comments and allusions to Aeschylus, Virgil, and Voltaire, just to name a few. This got me even more curious about his frame of reference, his education, and I discovered he was trained to be a lawyer, but chose writing instead. Not only did he write the novels we are all aquainted with, but poetry, a few nonfiction pieces, as well as founded and edited a literary journal. He was highly devoted to the concept that everyone should have the opportunity to be educated, and in 1851 took part in the International Peace Congress in Paris. As a member of the Legislative Assembly he was forced to flee France when Napoleon III
Of course, there’s more to Hugo’s writing than social commentary and history. There’s a beautiful story unraveling about an old man and a young girl who need a family and have created one in each other. Funny enough, it reminds me of the story starring Natalie Portman called Leon, The Professional
Follow my adventures through Les Miserables
The post on Cosette by the Blog Hop’s Hostess, Kate’s Library, can be found here: http://kateslibrary.blogspot.com/2012/06/les-miserables-victory-hugo-post-2.html
Read my post on Marius (part 3 of Les Miserables).
Anakalian Whims 